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Eights from Eliot, Winthrop, Adams, and Dunster will also compete over the mile course, which will finish just below the Cottage Farm Bridge. Among the spectators will be Tom Bolles, Athletic Director, and the Masters of the competing Houses...
Cahn held off Dartmouth's Roger Coates for second place, crossing the finish in 4:23.2, a respectable first effort. After recovering, he walked off the track muttering about "crazy people" who run the mile. An hour later, however, Cahn was back on the track for the two-mile. Here again he did well, covering the distance in 10:18 for third place behind the Crimson's Willy Thompson and Coates...
After the first six races on Saturday, the Crimson stood in second place, nine points behind M.I.T. In Sunday's first contest, Hanson Robbins skippered his boat to a second-place finish in division A, while Bill Saltonstall came in first in the B division. M.I.T., meanwhile, could do no better than a third and a ninth and fell into a tie with the varsity...
Navy almost stole second place from Penn with a tremendous closing spring which provided an exciting finish. The Middies rowed the whole last half-mile above a 38, finishing at a 41. Penn had to push its stroke up to a 37 in order to squeeze ahead by half a second. The Crimson boat, never rowing above a 35, was not even pressed...
...keep the Crimson shell from drawing ahead, the Penn stroke moved up to a 34, but was almost a length behind at the mile mark. Coming through the bridge a half-mile from the finish, Penn was rowing a 35 and the Crimson a 32 with open water between them...